What is GovRAMP?

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GovRAMP applies the model FedRAMP established for federal procurement to the state, local, and education market: a common NIST 800-53 based baseline, independent assessment, and a central program office. A provider demonstrates its security posture once and reuses that standing across participating governments, which is why the program functions as a market-access gate for SLED cloud contracts.

Because GovRAMP is built on NIST 800-53, the configuration and monitoring evidence overlaps heavily with FedRAMP and TX-RAMP preparation. Continuous CIS benchmark scanning mapped to NIST 800-53, as CISGuard performs, produces the recurring hardened-configuration evidence the continuous-monitoring phase expects.